Brewer's: Momiers

(French, men of mummery). An Evangelical party of Switzerland, somewhat resembling our Methodists. They arose in 1818, and made way both in Germany and France.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

Mommur

Mome

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